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Show GERMANS DESCRIBE DASH IITO CM Eight English War Vessels Ves-sels Enter Bay and Send Up Hydroplanes, Which Drop Bombs on the Ships at Anchor and the Gas Works NO DAMAGE DONE, REPORT DECLARES Germans Use Zeppelins and Aeroplanes Against ! Enemy and Claim to Have Hit Two Destroyers De-stroyers and a Convoy With Bombs. i (Sp4al Cable s? JLmoeemmt WUi London TJefiy , Te eg-apb and interna onal Nen Servtee.) T BEE LIN via Sayville Dec 26 Tha following announcement is made by tha official press bureau The admiralty reports today that on, December 2j there was a fight with eight British sh ps which made a dash into a German bay Hydroplanes con voyed by them ad nced against the mouths of German nvers and dropped bombs on anchored hips and on gas works near Cuxhaven without hitting anything or doing any damage. The hydroplanes when fired at withdrew la an easterly direction German airships and aeroplanes ! reeonnoitered against the British forces and hit w th bombs two British dest oy ers and one convoy A tire broke out i on the latter ' Fog prevented a continuation of tha fighting Cuxhaen which Rppears to have I been the center of a British" hydroplane I rs d on the German coast is at the mouth of tho lver Elbe near the en trance to the Kiel canal It is forty miles southeast of the heavily fortified island of Heligoland If Bnt sh ships succeeded in getting near Cuxhaven thev must have passed th s supposedly impregnable fortress whi h guards tha canal THRILLING RAID BY BRITISH IS NOTABLE FEAT Special Cab e br rranemei! Oj IonSon rial J Te egraph and n eroatfona ewa Servlc. ) NEW YOKE Dec b The only m formation rece ed from my ource re gard ng the B ti-h naval aid on the German coast in the vicinity of Cux haven comes from Berlin in a wire less message received at "Sayville, L. L, ton ght The British admiralty evi dently has made no announcement on the subject and if the news of tho ra d is known m English newspaper of fices the censor has prevented its transm se on to th s country There is con" derable obscurity about some of the features of the raid owing partly to apparent errors m the trans-miss trans-miss on of the wirelcs message Tho exact text of the f rst sentence as it was rece ved at Sayville is Admiralty reports 2b 12 on 2o-12 fight Br tish sh ps made dash into Ger man bay , , . The operator at Sayville inlets that th s is the sentence exactly as he re ce ed it. Filled out in the n"mal way of f H ng out skeleton cable message! tho &entencc wo Id reaa The adm ralv reports on the 6th (today) that on tho tl there wo a f tht witl Bnt si sh ps wh ch made a da h nto o Cermao bav On thp other hand if the letter f in f ght wero handed to e thw- (Continued on Page Three ) ENGLISH Ri FOE'S PORTS BY IJD SEfl Eight War Vessels With Hydroplanes Dash Into Cuxhaven, German Airships Bombard (Continued from Page One ) vord woull lo ), and the sentence! wu Id o a Ihe i rait that eigl t 13 it a dash nto a tier na lhat the adn It co k Ic ed it a f ght, ho vever s u f ated b tho last se ton e of tho n ugo whicl reads log provontel oiitinu ition fight In" This Chrlstuas day raid on the Oer man coast was y ogross whilo the Gem ans were n a i g u se sational ai atl-nak on Lnglisl r tea neai London Tho Br tieh attack was tho first ro ply to tho ( criDRu wursb p ra d on tho Yorkshire coast i Lnglan 1 when Vh t b Scarboro gh I la tlepool and Wost Hartlepool wore shelled It was oi en a n ore danng feat for the Br ti h ships to reach tho ne gh borhooi of tho coast if it s to b assumed they dared tho sphere of ilel igoland protection even m a fog This Impregnable fortress s constant 1 guarded by loublo lines of patroll ng wurshlnii In the die; atch tho name of the Oer n an bay s deleted There is a shoal water bay ou tho west coast of bast Frsland near the German town of Norden and adjacent to Holland Light dra ght, small warships t ch a son e of tho destroyers listed in the Br t h na v might easily reach this bay in a fog and there establish a base for hydroplane attack on the mouths of the great German rivers the Weser and Elbe forty miles away The swift water birds could skim over the shallow waters within the line of the East Fnesian island keep ng out of sight of the Gem an patrol especially on a friggy da The course s open from Norden all the way to the mouths of th German rivers Rising in the air, the hydroplanes could then make their attack with bombs on the German shipping held in the harbors outside of Wilhelmshaven and Cuxhaven the two great naval bases of Germany Cuxhaven which appears to be the center of the hydroplane attack of the British u at the month of the river Elbe leading to Hamburg and an easier point for aerial attack trom tho direc (Ion indicated than the more import ant station of Wilhelmshaven in the mouth of the river Weser leading to Bremen Wilhelmshaven is deeper within the nver mouth and bay and presumably better protected from sea and a r at ta k (.uxhaien is across from the month of the Kiel canal, which de bouches near Brunsbuettel Cuxhaven is forty miles within the Heligoland patrol It is scarcely to be assumed that even in a fog e ght Br tiah vessels could pass through the doable patrol of German ar vessel: guard ng Hebgo land |